Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [v-ing] [noun] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friday 's charity meeting at Sunderland is expected to raise £2,000 for the Samaritans and The Northern Echo is sponsoring race seven . |
| 2 | The Washington-based newsletter Defence Week reported in April 1989 that the US administration was seeking USdollars 7,000,000 in the 1990 financial year and a further dollars 27,700,000 in 1991 for the development of " incapacitating chemical material " . |
| 3 | Stress at work is costing industry billions . |
| 4 | THE Chancellor is ploughing £4 billion into industry to help pull it out of the doldrums . |
| 5 | The consortium is seeking $5.2 million from the Department of Energy for the research and for structural alterations to SSRL involving the addition of two beam-lines . |
| 6 | A group headed by Chevron and Conoco is investing £2 billion in developing the difficult Britannia complex ; an Amoco-led consortium is spending £1.5 billion on the Everest and Lomond fields and the new pipeline ; and the new Armada project is provisionally estimated by County NatWest Woodmac to involve investment of almost £800m . |
| 7 | Sealants Adhesives and Coatings also had to have the paint , originally designed for use on military truck exteriors , adjusted to provide a satisfactory finish on the composite while still meeting the MoD 's demanding DEF-STAN 80–41 criterion . |
| 8 | The use of information technology to keep tabs on truants is receiving particular encouragement south of the Border , where the Department for Education is putting £8.6 million into stepping up the fight against truancy , while Scottish Office research has put emphasis on identifying the varied causes . |
| 9 | Kingfisher is raising £155 million from the first call of 225p a share on a one-for-seven rights issue , with another 225p payable at the company 's discretion . |
| 10 | If an oscilloscope is available , check that a signal is reaching pin 3 of IC1 when a sound is directed into the microphone . |
| 11 | Sky are spending £5 million this month on a lavish advertising campaign in a bid to sell more dishes and win more armchair fans . |
| 12 | This Conservative Government are spending £6 billion less on provision for housing than was provided in 1979 . |
| 13 | The Government are making £8 billion of housing resources available next year and £24 billion over three years . |
| 14 | This means that an atom or molecule of the matrix is occupying Cr(CO) 5 vacant position — in other words , bonding to the chromium . |
| 15 | The government is making £40 million available to councils over the next three years for the funding of recycling schemes . |
| 16 | The Indian government is claiming $65 million to compensate for the craft ceasing to work last autumn . |
| 17 | Instead of increasing the flexibility of our defence forces by rectifying weaknesses in our conventional defences , the British government is spending £10 000 million on the Trident strategic missile system and is encouraging the US also to divert resources into dangerous non-essentials like cruise missiles . |
| 18 | I WAS amazed to read that the Government is spending £2.5 million to provide new factories and warehouses in Liverpool to offset the closure of the Camell Laird shipyard . |
| 19 | The salvage operation is taking place 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland in North Atlantic waters over 12,400 feet deep . |
| 20 | He said the Government was providing £10 million for truancy projects in 74 local education authorities . |
| 21 | President , Congress , the ex er we believe the Executive are accepting motion two four three , but we believe it should be aired at Congress today . |
| 22 | In County Durham , for example , British Coal is spending £6 million a year keeping its remaining coastal pits dry but now has no operational interest in the network of 11 pumping stations . |
| 23 | What neither seemed to realise at Manchester was that the umpire was invoking Law 42 , Unfair Play , which covers intimidation — without reference to deliveries above the shoulder . |
| 24 | Progress Software Corp is shipping version 6.3 of its Application Development Environment ( UX No 405 ) on Sun SPARC , Sequent PTX , IBM RS/6000 and Data General Aviion Unix machines as well as those running Santa Cruz Operation Unix . |
| 25 | Candle Corp is implementing Posix 1003 and 1003.4 real-time extensions for IBM 's MVS/ESA 4.2 operating system running 3090 and ES/9000 mainframes : testing begins now , Posix-compliant versions will ship this year . |
| 26 | IBM Corp is readying OS/2 2.1 — now in beta test — for introduction at Comdex Spring in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 27 | A National Power spokesman said that the company was investing £700 million on fitting cleaning equipment at Drax . |
| 28 | The regional council says the Scottish Office is cutting £17 million from its £88 million capital allowance for each of the next two financial years under the mistaken belief that the money will be made up by European funding . |
| 29 | Is the Prime Minister aware that the Home Office is withdrawing section 11 funding from all the colleges in the London borough of Ealing and that that adversely affects the Pathway further education centre in my constituency , where we have the largest concentration of people from the new Commonwealth ? |
| 30 | The dealer is paying £2,406.41 90 days before interest is actually paid by the original deposit taker . |